TARZANA, CALIF. ­­– Ellen Secor (Portland, Ore.) won the 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday, along with her playing partner and college teammate, Katrina Prendergast (Sparks, Nev.). The Championship, conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), was held April 28-May 2 at El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana, Calif.

Secor and Prendergast, both student-athletes at Colorado State University, defeated the side of Yachun Chang and Lei Ye, 1-up in the 18-hole Championship match.

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Secor, a sophomore at CSU, attended Sunset High School in Portland. Both Secor and Prendergast, who is a junior at Colorado State, recently earned at-large bids to the NCAA Women’s Golf Regional at the University of Texas Golf Club in Austin, Texas from May 7-9.

The 20-year-old Secor grew up playing in numerous Oregon Junior Golf major events. She broke out on the OGA Championship circuit in 2016 with a T4 finish at the Oregon Women’s Stroke Play Championship. In 2017, Secor earned medalist honors at the 108th Oregon Women’s Amateur Championship, also earning a top-10 finish at last year’s Oregon Women’s Amateur Championship.

To read more about the Championship match at the 2018 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship, please click here to visit the USGA website.